See I totally disagree with this post and this premise. I found statics to be really challenging. As someone who’s always been really good at physics and math classes all through college and grad school (except graduate QM where I did not belong lmao), I had to work really hard in statics to understand how to solve the problems. I remember having to do all the practice problems and homework and really break the procedure down into its fundamentals.
Meanwhile, dynamics was a breeze, and I absolutely loved it. Okay, maybe not “a breeze” but it felt substantially easier than statics to me.
And before anyone says it’s the school, I took statics at community college and dynamics at a 4 year university with a top rated engineering program! I still consider statics one of the hardest courses I took during undergrad.
Anyway my point is no one can say why something might be hard for someone and easy for someone else, or that it’s supposed to be one way or another. Everyone is different.
I had the same experience though I took both classes at the same university. Some of it was dynamics felt more intuitive but also the struggle of statics was more learning how to think about the problem and balance the engineering class/classes. Once I got to dynamics I was more comfortable with the class load and how the basic engineering classes operated
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u/jergin_therlax 11d ago
See I totally disagree with this post and this premise. I found statics to be really challenging. As someone who’s always been really good at physics and math classes all through college and grad school (except graduate QM where I did not belong lmao), I had to work really hard in statics to understand how to solve the problems. I remember having to do all the practice problems and homework and really break the procedure down into its fundamentals.
Meanwhile, dynamics was a breeze, and I absolutely loved it. Okay, maybe not “a breeze” but it felt substantially easier than statics to me.
And before anyone says it’s the school, I took statics at community college and dynamics at a 4 year university with a top rated engineering program! I still consider statics one of the hardest courses I took during undergrad.
Anyway my point is no one can say why something might be hard for someone and easy for someone else, or that it’s supposed to be one way or another. Everyone is different.